It's not every day you get to talk about two major box sets in a 24-hour span. And this one makes the U.K. Black Sabbath box look like something thrown into a digipak. The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box is ready to order. Sixteen CDs, a DVD, a 250-page book and a collectible USB drive, all loaded with a heap of unreleased music, demos, rarities and other jaw-dropping stuff. And it's literally enormous. Check out the size of it in this video; it looks like a box for
New U.K. Black Sabbath Box Set: What's to Be Cross About?
Since The Second Disc began, we've seen more than a bit of Black Sabbath reissues and remasters, all of them confined to the United Kingdom, where the band's catalogue is distributed by Universal Music Group's Sanctuary Records (Warner Bros. handles it in the U.S.). The latest British-only set has been announced, and it's a doozy. A new box, The Ozzy Years: Complete Albums Box Set, will make its way to U.K. record shops on November 15. It has exactly what it says: nine remastered Sabbath albums
In Which We Keep Fishin' for Weezer Catalogue Info
With the track list for Geffen/UMe's deluxe reissue of Weezer's Pinkerton announced, the question still stands: where's the rest of the track lists? It's been confirmed time and again that Universal has two more sets of Weezer rarities and ephemera due, possibly by the end of the year. Death to False Metal is the long-gestating outtakes compilation spanning the band's Geffen years, while another set of frontman Rivers Cuomo's demos, set to cover the time surrounding the making of Pinkerton, is
Mini-Exclusive: A Small Treat for Lennon Fans at Target
Thinking about next week's John Lennon reissues and where to buy them? If you like Target, it may be the place to get a hold of at least some of the sets. We've confirmed that those who purchase the new deluxe edition of Double Fantasy (with the "Stripped Down" bonus disc) and the Power to the People compilation at the Bullseye will receive a $5 gift card with purchase. Sure, it's not extra tracks, but it might be a minor incentive if you have other purchases to make at the retailer - and it's
In Case You Missed It: Midge Ure Reissues Coming Up
EMI continues its ongoing parade of reissued titles with two titles from Midge Ure, best known as the frontman for Ultravox, coming next week on October 4. The label will expand Ure's first two albums, 1985's The Gift and 1988's Answers to Nothing, in two-disc sets boasting the usual B-sides, remixes, live cuts and some unreleased material to boot. Both albums, released on either end of Ultravox's final album in 1986, boasted a few great singles, including the U.K. chart-topper "If I Was" and
Reissue Theory: Ben Folds Five, "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we reflect on well-known albums of the past and the reissues they could someday see. With a new album from a modern-day piano man released today, we take a look back at one of his best classic albums. Today is a day pissed-off geeky guys like myself love celebrating: Ben Folds has released a new album. Lonely Avenue makes one of his most intriguing LPs since going solo with Rockin' the Suburbs nine years ago. This time, the
"Pinkerton" Deluxe Edition Details Unveiled
With the release of the surprisingly strong Hurley from those crazy pop-rockers Weezer, it's a delight to see Rivers Cuomo and company back in the public eye. Sure, everyone likes to come down on their more recent material - say, everything after their self-titled "Green Album" in 2001 - for being overly polished and lacking the depth of their excellent first two records, but the fact that Cuomo can pen so many catchy pop hooks on a single album is admittedly stunning. And this year, the band's
Friday Feature: "Wall Street"
Who'd have figured, 23 years ago, that Oliver Stone's ripped-from-the-headlines drama Wall Street would have garnered enough cultural currency to warrant a sequel in 2010? Certainly not the writer-director, who went from strength to strength in and around Hollywood before finally committing to his first sequel. Probably not Michael Douglas, whose corporate raider Gordon Gekko became one of the most captivating villains of 1980s film (and later, bizarrely enough, one of the most misguided role
Let's Hope You Didn't Buy a-ha's "25" Just Yet
Because the compilation released almost everywhere but the U.S. is getting expanded a bit more, as a CD/DVD edition with the first-ever compilation of the band's videos. If you're a big a-ha fan - and let's face it: if you are, there's at least a 75% chance of you getting 25 in the first place - you'll want to wait until this version is released October 4. And please excuse the grumbling, but catalogue fans are this close, it seems, to abandoning the purchase of reissues and box sets from
Short Takes: Legacy’s First Paul Simon Release, James Taylor Goes Gold, and Spector Set Due
With the fall officially underway, we’re now in the busiest time of the year for the music biz, and as this week hits its halfway point, we’re here to offer a few announcements you might have missed. Audio Fidelity offers on November 2 a 24K Gold CD version of James Taylor’s seminal 1972 album originally released on Warner Bros. Records, One Man Dog. Remastered by audio guru Steve Hoffman, One Man Dog has among its highlights the now-standard “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.” One Man Dog joins
The La La Land Slate Expands (UPDATED 9/21)
You've got to love La La Land Records not only for the scope of their soundtrack reissues - titles released this year included expansions of Eraser, the 1966 and 1989 film versions of Batman, Innerspace, Independence Day and the debut CD release of the Caddyshack LP - but their openness in discussing what's on the horizon. Label head M.V. Gerhard maintains an active presence on his label's own message board and the boards for fellow label/publication Film Score Monthly, and discusses upcoming
Reissue Theory: Carl Douglas, "Kung Fu Fighter"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we reflect on well-known albums of the past and the reissues they could someday see. This installment concerns a hard-hitting novelty single that's still kicking after more than a quarter-century. Twenty-six years ago today, the top song in the United Kingdom was one of the most hilariously stereotypical songs of the 1970s, a funky little number called "Kung Fu Fighting." Rarely has anyone mimed some clumsy karate moves without thinking of
Is the Time A-Changin' for Release of Mono Dylan on Vinyl?
The Bob Dylan section of Examiner.com reports "from a trusted source" that the vinyl edition of Dylan's forthcoming The Original Mono Recordings will be pushed back to December 7. Not sure who the source is, but Amazon's listing also has that December date. (The CD versions are still on track for October 19.) In other Dylan news, those who were waiting for confirmation on the promised Brandeis show as an Amazon exclusive now have their proof. Those who pre-order either The Witmark Demos
Jesus and Mary Chain Compilation Coming Next Week
Add another rock band to the late-in-the-year compilation pile: influential Scottish noise-pop band The Jesus and Mary Chain will release a two-disc compilation of tunes in the U.K. on September 27. The Jesus and Mary Chain, formed around a pair of brothers (Jim and William Reid), took the messy, noisy ethos of The Velvet Underground and The Sex Pistols and made it interesting for the U.K. indie scene. Bands like The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. owe them some sort of a sonic
The Irresistible Tammi Terrell, Compiled
To the non-believers and newcomers, Tammi Terrell isn't more than a footnote in the story of Motown. Her name sits beside Marvin Gaye's on a few iconic singles - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need to Get By" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," to name three - but that's it, right? Wrong, says Hip-o Select's new Terrell anthology Come On and See Me: The Complete Solo Recordings. On her own, Terrell recorded just one full long-playing record for Motown, but it was released
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y! Rollermania Strikes Again in October
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y! For many readers, that chant will undoubtedly conjure up images of a group of tartan-clad Scotsmen, whose catchy, hook-filled 45s led hordes of screaming teenagers and teenyboppers to the dance floor (alongside adults with discerning taste in irresistible pop music, of course!). The history of The Bay City Rollers is being celebrated by the fine folks of the U.K.’s Salvo Records with the October 4 release of a deluxe four-disc anthology they’ve quite accurately called
Come and Get It, In One Shot: The Apple Box Set Announced
After months during which EMI kept us all guessing, official specs were finally released for the Apple Records reissue campaign, and The Second Disc duly reported that information back on August 5. As with most projects related to The Beatles and/or Apple Corps, however, there were as many questions as answers, even after the “final” information had been posted on the official Apple website. For one thing, why downloads? Fans were sharply divided as to how they felt about the practice of
Friday Feature: "Twister"
When you feel down - regardless of your gender - you probably have some sort of ritual that gets you through your funk. This has become almost a cliche among the fairer sex; almost too easily conjured is the image of girls watching The Notebook while wearing comfortable sweatpants and eating some Haagen-Dazs ice-cream for comfort. I can at least empathize with the film aspect of that cliche, although my "comfort film" involves Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and a nightmarish load of property
A Little Bit o' Soul: A Busy Fall from Big Break and Superbird
Funky Town Grooves announced quite a lineup of soul classics to hit shelves this fall, as reported yesterday by The Second Disc, and we're happy to follow up with news of the latest exciting releases coming from two Cherry Red labels across the pond, Big Break Records and Superbird. First up, Big Break (BBR) delves further into the Philadelphia International (PIR) catalogue, dormant here in the United States but also being mined concurrently by the U.K.'s Edsel label. September 20 sees the
...And These ARE the Contents of the CHIC Box Set
Hot off the presses, folks. Thanks to super-reader RoyalScam for the tip back in this post. Hit the jump for some good times!
Reissue Theory: Linkin Park, "Hybrid Theory"
This week, rock band Linkin Park released their fourth studio album, A Thousand Suns. The results are, sad to say, not pretty; since 2007's Minutes to Midnight, the California rap-metal band has become more of an angsty Depeche Mode-lite with U2 aspirations and a guaranteed spot on every soundtrack to a Transformers film. Maybe it's the middle school nostalgia talking, but they were something else when they first burst onto the scene a decade ago. Chester Bennington, the throaty lead singer,
A Very Strange Circle is Completed: New John Spencer Blues Explosion Reissues from Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory concludes its exhaustive series of reissues with a pair of expansive editions of Orange (1994) and Acme (1998). The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion became one of the most unusual alt-rock bands of the '90s because they were bizarrely unique. In a review of their 2010 compilation Dirty Shirt Rock N' Roll: The First Ten Years (which kicked off this whole reissue campaign), Pitchfork called their music "highly crafted and gloriously messy, heavily conceptual but still visceral, serious
Three from the Hard Rock Archives
As if there weren't enough catalogue options on everyone's plates, here come three more hard-rock reissues - one from Jethro Tull and two from Rainbow. EMI/Capitol is releasing a deluxe edition of Jethro Tull's sophomore LP Stand Up (1969). The first album of JT's in which Ian Anderson had total control over the musical direction was thus a departure from the band's bluesy debut, This Was, opting instead for more of a folk sound. This set will be an expanded three-disc set with a bonus live
Cherry Pop Goes Au Naturel
Here's a few fun upcoming reissues from our friends at Cherry Pop: an expanded reissue of an '80s R&B novelty classic and two reissues from British vocalist Nick Heyward. Released in 1986, Frantic Romantic was the sophomore LP for singer-dancer Jermaine Stewart. The Soul Train dancer had already had his first single, "The Word is Out" (co-written with Culture Club's Mikey Craig), just miss Billboard's Top 40, but Frantic yielded the chaste dance anthem "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes
This May Be the Contents of the CHIC Box: Or, Can Anyone Speak Japanese?
Thanks to funk ambassador Donald Cleveland for this tip: a Japanese Web site called Disk Union has published what looks like a preliminary track list for Warner France's upcoming CHIC box set. Though it's not final - and the other text, being loosely translated from Japanese to English, isn't quite coherent or more descriptive than anything else we've read, it looks like some genuine rarities are going to be in this set, including excerpts from one particularly tantalizing unreleased
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